Fortune teller to medium
A fortune teller already meets 65% of what the medium role asks for. The move turns on 4 required skills not yet in the profile.
35/ 100
1 How much of what a medium is expected to do is already part of a fortune teller’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the medium role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A medium role treats 8 of its required skills as things a fortune teller already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- develop professional network
- maintain customer service
- maintain privacy of service users
- manage personal professional development
- occultism
- prospect new customers
What stands in the way is 4 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 16 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A medium role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a fortune teller background worth leading with.
- already held occultism arts and humanities
- already held entertain people communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held perform improvisation communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held perform live communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held maintain privacy of service users assisting and caring
- already held rhetoric social sciences, journalism and information
All 16 carried skills, including the 8 the medium role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 9 missing skills fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn use séance tools required
- still to learn counsel clients required
- still to learn listen actively required
- optional, not held apply crisis intervention optional
- optional, not held perform lectures optional
- optional, not held coach clients optional
- still to learn spiritualism required
- optional, not held provide spiritual counselling optional
- optional, not held psychology optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a medium role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 16 skills that carry over
- already held develop professional network skill
- already held maintain customer service skill
- already held maintain privacy of service users skill
- already held manage personal professional development skill
- already held occultism knowledge
- already held prospect new customers skill
- already held rhetoric knowledge
- already held use consulting techniques skill
- already held administer appointments skill
- already held entertain people skill
- already held interview people skill
- already held keep personal administration skill
- already held manage a small-to-medium business skill
- already held perform improvisation skill
- already held perform live skill
- already held use different communication channels skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held apply crisis intervention optional
- optional, not held perform lectures optional
- optional, not held coach clients optional
- optional, not held provide spiritual counselling optional
- optional, not held psychology optional
12 held skills the medium role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role assess character skill
- not needed by the target role astrology knowledge
- not needed by the target role body language knowledge
- not needed by the target role communicate by telephone skill
- not needed by the target role digital marketing techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role fortune-telling techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role give advice on personal matters skill
- not needed by the target role interpret tarot cards skill
- not needed by the target role numerology knowledge
- not needed by the target role promote human rights skill
- not needed by the target role read palms skill
- not needed by the target role use internet chat skill
2 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- still to learn spiritualism required
- optional, not held psychology optional
Common questions about this move
Can a fortune teller become a medium?
Yes, and it is a moderate move. A fortune teller already covers 65% of what a medium is expected to do: 16 skills carry over, 8 of which the medium role treats as required.
What skills does a fortune teller need to become a medium?
4 required skills are missing, plus 5 optional ones. They fall into 4 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is use séance tools.
How hard is the move from fortune teller to medium?
Its learning distance is 35 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.